To find this so cringeworthy?

What would you have preferred him to say? "That film had sick vibez, I thought it was mint."

Poor bloke. It was a bit clichéd and he might not make it on to the pages of Empire anytime soon, but he seems alright to me.

Sadly, I think we are regressing back to 1989, actually, with these views. And this is all conditioning, from birth. Girls get bought baby dolls with a push chair, toy kitchen, etc and told that only girls wear pink. Boys are bought toy trucks, cars, action heroes and toy guns and told only boys wear blue. So of course, everyone then grows up and believes that alpha men are too butch and to watch films like Wicked or Barbie.

Nothing wrong with “belly”. If you’d said “tummy” I’d have a different view. Something about a grown man saying tummy when not talking to a baby/ toddler gives me the ick.

I'll take belly over tummy any day of the week.

He is probably more articulate than the OP, and deserves somebody of similar verbal ability.

I'd just think he has a crap taste in films or is a little pretentious tbh, you can be intelligent and not sound like a movie reviewer 😂

You see, I don’t think this is too bad but I think what has happened here is you’ve already got ‘The Ick’ with him and pretty much anything he says or does will drive you insane.
If my DH text me that I’d be like ‘ok, calm down Barry Norman’ but it would make me laugh.

I had a bf once (I was 17) who wore these really gross shoes on a date. I couldn’t get past them. Lovely guy, got ‘The Ick’ and he had to go.

I think it might be the start of the end OP 🙈🙈

He sounds too educated for you, OP.

Set him free.

Sounds like a problem with you rather than him. Cut him loose so you can both find people more suited to you.

‘Hallmarks of a classic’? What are those then, and how do they apply to this film specifically?

Yeah, no. I hate meaningless waffle that’s is intended to big up the speaker.

Seriously though, it may simply be that he has low self esteem and isn’t confident saying what he meant in case he was judged for it (which we are all doing here, so would understand that…)

Sounds like a pompous twit with "hallmarks of a classic". I think "belly" is just the word some families use, though.

A lot of the "blokes" I know are excited by the fact Jeff Goldblum is in it.

@EvilsElsasPetSnowman Exactly this

I’d have zero problem with that, but you have the ick, so let him go.

That’s not a ‘dangerous opinion’ - it’s an opinion based on the evidence of observing majority behaviour.

So you've observed your family's response to this film and decided its correct? So... anecdote?

The men in my family would happily accompany my dds, and might even enjoy it, but a film about teenage witches isn’t really priority viewing for most blokes. And any guy actively seeking to watch this I would assume would be gay. Or young. Or accompanying a child.

So now it's most blokes?

You need someone more chavvy I think. Someone who thinks a belly is a stomach.

So it is an opinion then? Based on 1989’s stereotypes. Not all opinions are valid

Its nearly 2025 I’d be embarrassed to admit that I assume men who watch musicals must be gay.

Dont complain about sexism if this is the fact you take

YABU re his use of language, it’s fine but I don’t think you are compatible.

You know it makes you cringe. You have been seeing him for a year and you’re not comfortable enough to tell him that / giggle about it kindly with him.

You know in your gut that he’s not for you. What are you looking for here? Enough validation from other people that he’s ‘cringy’ to dump him - or that he’s ’cute and you should keep him’ and you’ll deign to put up with him?

he is not for you. Find someone that you feel able to be honest with.

Absolutely!

This is what happens when you date someone that you don't actually like, you find totally fine things really off-putting. You aren't well matched. Let this guy go so he can find someone that would join in on his review.

The men in my family would happily accompany my dds, and might even enjoy it, but a film about teenage witches isn’t really priority viewing for most blokes. And any guy actively seeking to watch this I would assume would be gay. Or young. Or accompanying a child.

This is unbelievably absurd and narrow minded. Many straight men of my age love the arts and enjoy musical theatre including Wicked.

I thought the same. No issue with the guy wanting to see Wicked or having an opinion about a film but seeing the proper word "cringeworthy" instead of "cringe" was excellent.

Sounds like you are not really into him, and that's why these relatively minor things annoy you. The fact that you describe your relationship as 'on and off for a year' suggests the same. Personally I would move on and fine someone that you really want to be with.